Friday, May 11, 2007

Oddwords

The following were results for an Ozwords Competition where entrants were asked to take an Australian colloquialism, alter it by only one letter, and supply a new and witty definition. You clearly need to be an Aussie to understand.

Billabonk: to make passionate love beside a waterhole.Bludgie: a partner who doesn't work but is kept as a pet.Dodgeridoo: a fake indigenous artefact.Fair drinkum: good quality Aussie wine.Flatypus: a cat that has been run over by a vehicle.Mateshit: all your flat mate's belongings lying strewn around the floor.Shagman: an unemployed male roaming the Australian bush in search of sexual activity.Yabble: the unintelligible language of Australian freshwater crustaceans.Bushwanker: a pretentious drongo who reckons he's above average when it comes to handling himself in the scrub.Crackie daks: 'hipster' tracksuit pants.Shornbag: a particularly attractive naked sheep

Interntional readers: just ask if you don't know what the 'root' word meansAussie readers: feel free to add to the list

Dario if you don't know what the swagman sat beside while he stuffed a jumbuck in his tuckerbag -who am I to tell you. (It's a river bend that has silted up on both ends, a T shirt brand and 'personalised'something to smoke weed in)

To be honest, you've stumped me, I can't think of anything except to be sucking diesel - now you're sucking diesel - which means to be making progress, or the use of fuck as an adjective, verb, and noun, which is common here.

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